倅

See also: 伜

倅	U+5005, 倅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5005

← 倄
[U+5004]

CJK Unified Ideographs

倆 →
[U+5006]

Translingual

Han character

倅 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人卜人十 (OYOJ), four-corner 2024₈, composition ⿰亻卒)

Related characters

伜

Derived characters

𭫚

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 107, character 8
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 750
Dae Jaweon: page 227, character 18
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 182, character 11
Unihan data for U+5005

Chinese

simp. and trad.		倅
alternative forms		卒

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倅
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Small seal script s05912
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (卒) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
晬	*ʔsuːds
祽	*ʔsuːds
綷	*ʔsuːds
淬	*sʰuːds
啐	sʰuːds, suːds, sʰroːds, ʔsud
倅	sʰuːds, ʔsuːd
焠	*sʰuːds
碎	*suːds
誶	suːds, suds, *zud
濢	ʔslulʔ, sʰluds
噿	*ʔslulʔ
臎	ʔslulʔ, sʰluds
醉	*ʔsuds
翠	*sʰuds
悴	*zuds
萃	*zuds
瘁	*zuds
顇	*zuds
粹	*suds
睟	*suds
賥	*suds
卒	ʔsuːd, sʰuːd, *ʔsud
稡	*ʔsuːd
猝	*sʰuːd
椊	*zuːd
捽	zuːd, zud
崪	*zuːd
窣	*suːd
崒	*zud
踤	*zud
錊	*ʔsuːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰuːds, *ʔsuːd): semantic 亻 + phonetic 卒 (OC *ʔsuːd, *sʰuːd, *ʔsud).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cuì (cui⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi³ / zeot¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cuì
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cuèi
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻui⁴
  - Yale: tswèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuey
  - Palladius: цуй (cuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
  - Jyutping: ceoi³ / zeot¹
  - Yale: cheui / jēut
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoey³ / dzoet⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêu³ / zêd¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵy̯³³/, /t͡sɵt̚⁵/

Middle Chinese: tshwojH, tswot

Rime
Character	倅	倅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	清 (14)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)	沒 (56)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	七内切	臧没切
Baxter	tshwojH	tswot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰuʌi^H/	/t͡suət̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰuoi^H/	/t͡suot̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰuɒi^H/	/t͡suət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwəj^H/	/t͡swət̚/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰuᴀi^H/	/t͡suət̚/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰuɒi^H/	/t͡suət̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰuɑ̆i^H/	/t͡suət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cuì	zu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ceoi³	zyut³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ˤu[t]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*sʰuːds/, /*ʔsuːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	倅
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cuì
Middle Chinese	‹ tshwoj^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ˁu[t]-s/
English	assistant
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	倅	倅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17934	17956
Phonetic component	卒	卒
Rime group	隊	物
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime		卒
Old Chinese	/*sʰuːds/	/*ʔsuːd/
Notes	七由士校改

Definitions

倅

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) deputy, vice-

Compounds

倅貳 / 倅贰
倅車 / 倅车

Japanese

Kanji

倅

(Hyōgai kanji)

(humble) my son (せがれ)^[1]
deputy, vice- (たすけ)
suddenly (にわか)

Readings

Go-on: さい (sai)、そち (sochi)
Kan-on: さい (sai)、そつ (sotsu)
Kun: せがれ (segare, 倅)、たすけ (tasuke, 倅け)、にわか (niwaka, 倅か)^{←にはか (nifaka, 倅か, historical)}

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) せがれ [sègáré] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
IPA^(key): [se̞ɡa̠ɾe̞]

Noun

Kanji in this term
倅
せがれ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

倅(せがれ) • (segare)

(humble) one's own son
punk, brat
- 1906, Natsume Sōseki, Botchan‎^[2]:
  
  この質(しち)屋(や)に勘(かん)太(た)郎(ろう)という十(じゅう)三(さん)四(よん)の倅(せがれ)が居(い)た。
  Kono shichiya ni Kantarō to iu jūsan-yon no segare ga ita.
  This shopkeeper's son was a boy about 13 or 14 years old named Kantaro.
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Lady Butterfly boss fight
  やるじゃないか、倅(せがれ)殿(どの)。ならば、我(わ)が幻(まぼろし)に惑(まど)え。
  Yarujanaika, segare dono. Naraba, waga maboroshi ni madoe.
  Impressive, boy. In that case, lose yourself in my illusions.
(colloquial) penis

References

^ “倅”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Second edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō

“^▲倅”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[3] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

倅 • (swi, chwe, jol) (hangeul 쉬, 췌, 졸, revised swi, chwe, jol, McCune–Reischauer swi, ch'we, chol, Yale swi, chwey, col)

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[1] “倅”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

[SMK2-2] Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Second edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō

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